SPN 5.19 - Hammer of the Gods
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feliciakwYay iTunes finally uploaded!
This ep had so much to love, so much to ouch, and a bit to ignore.
Then . . . 2nd half of SPN S5, abridged.
Now . . .
Old, broken down motel. Which looks strikingly like a motel we pass every time we go through Winchester, Va. I kid you not. Geo even commented on the resemblance.
Muncie, IN. So we're back in the Mid-West, but not in Ohio. But next door to Ohio, so there is that.
Elysian Fields Hotel. H:TLJ fans across the country squee just a little bit! *squee*
Ooh! And apparently having someone walk around the Elysian Fields brings dead plants back to life! Well, that would make sense, since the Elysian Fields are the Greek mythology equivalent to Heaven. Right?
OOOHHHH!!!!! How cool is the self-repairing mirror! That's awesome! (And highly suspicious.)
Concierge dude is creepy.
LOVE the refurb on the place though!
This feels so much like a S1 ep I want to weep! Fantastic!
Boys assessing the place. "Nice digs for once."
What, is Concierge Dude typing a thesis? Or just randomly trying to look busy?
Dean cut himself shaving. :-O But Dean uses an electric razor! *quirks skeptical brow* I do love how CD is right there with the tissue though. Ha!
"Best pie in the tri-state area." And Dean's face just about lights up. Hee!
Apple or banana cream? Decisions, decisions. Dude, I'd go for the apple. But Dean goes for the banana cream, with a side of pilfered chocolate. Hee!
Dean, trying to hit on the sophisticated lady with the cosmopolitan. Oh, Dean. I love you so. You think you're smooth, but your really just adorkable. And he gets shot down. Three times. Hey, he can take a hint.
Wait. Is that a scimitar in her cherry garnish?
Dean is worried about Sam's lack of sleep. Bobby is working on it. Nobody's giving up. Especially Dean. "We're gonna find a way to beat the devil, okay? Soon. I can feel it. And we will find Cas. We'll find Adam. But you are no good to me burnt out." S1 Dean? Is that you? *falls on him and weeps* It is you! I didn't know how much I missed you until just this very moment. And you're all grown up! *weeps more*
"What are you, twelve?"
"I'm young at heart."
Dean's childlike glee at finding chocolate on his pillow, then asking Sammy and snatching his as well. *hugs Dean and never lets go* Ganking Zach did wonders for your disposition, didn't it, Dean, sweetie.
I don't recognize the writer of the story, and the teleplay writers are getting better. Don't recognize the director's name, either, but it seems like fresh blood on the production crew is doing Show good. \o/
Honeymooners break a brick wall, then disappear? That can't be good.
I'm with Sam. Concierge Dude is exceptionally creepy.
Poor Dean. No night off for you. :-(
Sam gets mysteriously nicked on the neck. If I didn't know better, I'd think there were invisible vampires around.
EMF detector! \o/
I'm sorry. What? *blink, blink* Random elephant in a room? Geo and I laugh. Dean backs up and takes a second look. Jensen does the best "bzuh?" faces. I laugh more.
Exposition. Ooh! Creepy Concierge is Mercury. They're Greek gods!
Full-on Babar. Bwah!
Ooh. Hotel is suddenly empty. Not good.
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
"Please be tomato soup. Please be tomato soup." Eyeballs. Dean throws his hands up in disgust. Geo laaaaughs. Seriously, I love the way Jensen plays Dean's various stages of disgust.
"There's somebody behind me, isn't there." Show, you feel so much like S1!
Ooohhh! Oooohhh!!! Gods from other mythologies! GOU'ALD SUMMIT!!!!!! *squeeeeeeee*
Ba'al Baldur calls the meeting to order. I like the ground rules he lays. Hah!
Oh, this is so not good.
You know? I don't actually have a lot to say about how they play the mythologies vis-a-vis the biblical apocalypse. I had some misgivings, and Kali's speech later makes me a wee bit uncomfy, but overall, I'm okay with it, so I'm not gonna meta.
I do kinda love the bickering between the various mythologies. And I rather like Odin. (Of course, he makes me wonder where Zeus is, but that's just my H:tLJ background coming out, I think.)
I also love how the Boys try to inconspicuously sneak out during the bickering.
Ooh, but Kali will have none of it. (And every time I think of Kali, I think of Amita in N3, because that was her on-line gaming avatar. But I digress.)
Kali is Darth Vader!
Gabe!!! Gabe who silences the boys, lest his cover be blown. Eee!!!
"Why are you here?"
"To talk about the elephant in the room. Not you." Bwah!!!
Dean has no idea what to do with all of this. It kind of cracks me up.
Sam being snarky. Boys, I love you.
Gabe is there to bust the boys out. \o/ And he and Kali had a thing? "She was all hands." Of course she was.
I'm going to take this opportunity to say a couple things about Gabe. Now, if y'all remember, I was quite upset when they turned the Trickster (a womanizing, lying glutton--hey, that could describe Dean . . . ) into Gabriel, God's messenger and one of the most important angels in the Bible. I didn't like the ret-con, and I didn't like implying the things about Gabriel that it does. It still bothers me to an extent. But here's the thing: Richard Speight makes it bearable. The way he plays it, I can totally go along with this guy being a fictitious character who happens to be named Gabriel. (And the fact that Richard was ready to do the research on Gabriel--*draws sparklies around him*--but was told by the writer to disregard everything helps. The fact that Richard was ready to step up to the plate made me feel better about it.) So to me he is Gabe, a fictitious character for the purposes of show, bearing no resemblance to the actual Gabriel.
Also? Richard kind of cracks me up.
Okay, now that I've got that out of the way . . .
Dean blackmails Gabe to make him let the guys get the people out of the fridge. And he does it snarkily. Oh, Dean.
Okay, so apparently Kali has a thing for Norse deities. Huh.
Oh, Dean. Wants to save the random guy. Ready to jump in there and try. Sam holding him back because he knows there's a bigger picture. Oh, boys.
Dean ganks a Chinese god.
Kali knew he was Gabe all along.
WT????? Ghostfacers breaking in to my transmission? Cracks me up. Nice segue to commercial, Show.
Boys are caught, Gabe is snarky. "So I've got wings. Like Kotex." Um . . . actually? Always had wings first. It was its unique selling point when it hit the market. But that's probably TMI, huh. Oh! That's product placement for one of the sponsors, isn't it. Duh.
Kali killed Gabe. *gasp!*
Dean takes charge! Improvises, quick on his feet, and negotiates a hostage release! \o/ Welcome back, Dean!
Gabe's not dead! (Of course he's not.) "Don't look at me. Act natural." Bwah! So of course when someone tells you to act natural, your first response is to become completely self-conscious. Heh!
Not sure what I make of the conversation between Dean and Gabe. I like how Dean calls Gabe out because "takes one to know one." Dean and Gabe are alike in a lot of ways. In fact, I seem to recall the Trickster telling Dean he liked him, back in "Tall Tales." Ya think maybe Gabe saw some of himself in Dean?
Sam asks Kali and Baldur to squeegee his ribs. Kali would rather break them. Yikes!
Dean fills them in on the fact that the blade is a fake. Dean's serious about this pagan gods coalition.
Yipes!!! There's Lucifer. And Mercury called him??? Wow. Yeah, most mythologies have a lot of back stabbing in them, don't they.
I . . . really have nothing to say about Lucifer taking out all the pagan gods. Lucifer makes me very, very . . . nervous.
Kali with flaming arms is kind of cool, though.
Gabe steps up to the plate! \o/ (After telling Dean to guard a "Casa Erotica" DVD with his life. Um . . . ha?)
"Luci, I'm home." Because you know someone had to make that joke eventually, right? Also? I kind of love that line, because it says that Gabe has come home, he's done hiding, and he's come to settle things.
I also kinda love Gabe calling Lucifer out on all of it.
Boys escape with Kali. She might make an interesting (though untrustworthy) ally, yeah? Ot1h, I'd kind of like to see that happen. Otoh, not so much, as I think it would make my brain hurt.
Gabe has chosen a side. The side of humanity. Which, given that this whole thing started because God told the angels to love humanity, puts Gabe on God's side, right? "Dad was right," right?
Team Free Will has a new member! \o/
*gasp* Lucifer KILLED Gabe! *slaps hands over mouth* NOOOOOO!!!!! With toasted wings and everything! *sob*
Red screen, cheesy music, disclaimer. Wha???? We get to watch part of Dean's porn DVD?
Gabe is in the movie? Okay, something's up.
Secret message! "If you're watching this, I'm dead." *sob*
Gabe gives them the information they need! Lucifer's cage is still down there! They can trap him! The rings are the keys! Collect all four!
And I kinda love their expressions when Gabe goes back to making the movie. Particularly the way Sam closes the laptop quickly and definitively. Ha!
They have a plan!
Okay, Matt Frewer as Pestilence? Pretty freakin' awesome. However, that entire scene was thoroughly disgusting and gag-inducing. I can't even re-watch it right now. I just . . . *gag*
So in conclusion, there was indeed much to love about this episode. Some stuff that I had misgivings and reservations about, but nothing that couldn't be handwaved.
I LOVE having Dean back, in the game, can-do-go-down-fighting-saving-people attitude, S1 Dean only all grown up. Welcome back, Dean. Now you're gonna have your hands full keepin' an eye on Sam next week, it would seem.
Also, the guys looked good.
This ep had so much to love, so much to ouch, and a bit to ignore.
Then . . . 2nd half of SPN S5, abridged.
Now . . .
Old, broken down motel. Which looks strikingly like a motel we pass every time we go through Winchester, Va. I kid you not. Geo even commented on the resemblance.
Muncie, IN. So we're back in the Mid-West, but not in Ohio. But next door to Ohio, so there is that.
Elysian Fields Hotel. H:TLJ fans across the country squee just a little bit! *squee*
Ooh! And apparently having someone walk around the Elysian Fields brings dead plants back to life! Well, that would make sense, since the Elysian Fields are the Greek mythology equivalent to Heaven. Right?
OOOHHHH!!!!! How cool is the self-repairing mirror! That's awesome! (And highly suspicious.)
Concierge dude is creepy.
LOVE the refurb on the place though!
This feels so much like a S1 ep I want to weep! Fantastic!
Boys assessing the place. "Nice digs for once."
What, is Concierge Dude typing a thesis? Or just randomly trying to look busy?
Dean cut himself shaving. :-O But Dean uses an electric razor! *quirks skeptical brow* I do love how CD is right there with the tissue though. Ha!
"Best pie in the tri-state area." And Dean's face just about lights up. Hee!
Apple or banana cream? Decisions, decisions. Dude, I'd go for the apple. But Dean goes for the banana cream, with a side of pilfered chocolate. Hee!
Dean, trying to hit on the sophisticated lady with the cosmopolitan. Oh, Dean. I love you so. You think you're smooth, but your really just adorkable. And he gets shot down. Three times. Hey, he can take a hint.
Wait. Is that a scimitar in her cherry garnish?
Dean is worried about Sam's lack of sleep. Bobby is working on it. Nobody's giving up. Especially Dean. "We're gonna find a way to beat the devil, okay? Soon. I can feel it. And we will find Cas. We'll find Adam. But you are no good to me burnt out." S1 Dean? Is that you? *falls on him and weeps* It is you! I didn't know how much I missed you until just this very moment. And you're all grown up! *weeps more*
"What are you, twelve?"
"I'm young at heart."
Dean's childlike glee at finding chocolate on his pillow, then asking Sammy and snatching his as well. *hugs Dean and never lets go* Ganking Zach did wonders for your disposition, didn't it, Dean, sweetie.
I don't recognize the writer of the story, and the teleplay writers are getting better. Don't recognize the director's name, either, but it seems like fresh blood on the production crew is doing Show good. \o/
Honeymooners break a brick wall, then disappear? That can't be good.
I'm with Sam. Concierge Dude is exceptionally creepy.
Poor Dean. No night off for you. :-(
Sam gets mysteriously nicked on the neck. If I didn't know better, I'd think there were invisible vampires around.
EMF detector! \o/
I'm sorry. What? *blink, blink* Random elephant in a room? Geo and I laugh. Dean backs up and takes a second look. Jensen does the best "bzuh?" faces. I laugh more.
Exposition. Ooh! Creepy Concierge is Mercury. They're Greek gods!
Full-on Babar. Bwah!
Ooh. Hotel is suddenly empty. Not good.
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
"Please be tomato soup. Please be tomato soup." Eyeballs. Dean throws his hands up in disgust. Geo laaaaughs. Seriously, I love the way Jensen plays Dean's various stages of disgust.
"There's somebody behind me, isn't there." Show, you feel so much like S1!
Ooohhh! Oooohhh!!! Gods from other mythologies! GOU'ALD SUMMIT!!!!!! *squeeeeeeee*
Oh, this is so not good.
You know? I don't actually have a lot to say about how they play the mythologies vis-a-vis the biblical apocalypse. I had some misgivings, and Kali's speech later makes me a wee bit uncomfy, but overall, I'm okay with it, so I'm not gonna meta.
I do kinda love the bickering between the various mythologies. And I rather like Odin. (Of course, he makes me wonder where Zeus is, but that's just my H:tLJ background coming out, I think.)
I also love how the Boys try to inconspicuously sneak out during the bickering.
Ooh, but Kali will have none of it. (And every time I think of Kali, I think of Amita in N3, because that was her on-line gaming avatar. But I digress.)
Kali is Darth Vader!
Gabe!!! Gabe who silences the boys, lest his cover be blown. Eee!!!
"Why are you here?"
"To talk about the elephant in the room. Not you." Bwah!!!
Dean has no idea what to do with all of this. It kind of cracks me up.
Sam being snarky. Boys, I love you.
Gabe is there to bust the boys out. \o/ And he and Kali had a thing? "She was all hands." Of course she was.
I'm going to take this opportunity to say a couple things about Gabe. Now, if y'all remember, I was quite upset when they turned the Trickster (a womanizing, lying glutton--hey, that could describe Dean . . . ) into Gabriel, God's messenger and one of the most important angels in the Bible. I didn't like the ret-con, and I didn't like implying the things about Gabriel that it does. It still bothers me to an extent. But here's the thing: Richard Speight makes it bearable. The way he plays it, I can totally go along with this guy being a fictitious character who happens to be named Gabriel. (And the fact that Richard was ready to do the research on Gabriel--*draws sparklies around him*--but was told by the writer to disregard everything helps. The fact that Richard was ready to step up to the plate made me feel better about it.) So to me he is Gabe, a fictitious character for the purposes of show, bearing no resemblance to the actual Gabriel.
Also? Richard kind of cracks me up.
Okay, now that I've got that out of the way . . .
Dean blackmails Gabe to make him let the guys get the people out of the fridge. And he does it snarkily. Oh, Dean.
Okay, so apparently Kali has a thing for Norse deities. Huh.
Oh, Dean. Wants to save the random guy. Ready to jump in there and try. Sam holding him back because he knows there's a bigger picture. Oh, boys.
Dean ganks a Chinese god.
Kali knew he was Gabe all along.
WT????? Ghostfacers breaking in to my transmission? Cracks me up. Nice segue to commercial, Show.
Boys are caught, Gabe is snarky. "So I've got wings. Like Kotex." Um . . . actually? Always had wings first. It was its unique selling point when it hit the market. But that's probably TMI, huh. Oh! That's product placement for one of the sponsors, isn't it. Duh.
Kali killed Gabe. *gasp!*
Dean takes charge! Improvises, quick on his feet, and negotiates a hostage release! \o/ Welcome back, Dean!
Gabe's not dead! (Of course he's not.) "Don't look at me. Act natural." Bwah! So of course when someone tells you to act natural, your first response is to become completely self-conscious. Heh!
Not sure what I make of the conversation between Dean and Gabe. I like how Dean calls Gabe out because "takes one to know one." Dean and Gabe are alike in a lot of ways. In fact, I seem to recall the Trickster telling Dean he liked him, back in "Tall Tales." Ya think maybe Gabe saw some of himself in Dean?
Sam asks Kali and Baldur to squeegee his ribs. Kali would rather break them. Yikes!
Dean fills them in on the fact that the blade is a fake. Dean's serious about this pagan gods coalition.
Yipes!!! There's Lucifer. And Mercury called him??? Wow. Yeah, most mythologies have a lot of back stabbing in them, don't they.
I . . . really have nothing to say about Lucifer taking out all the pagan gods. Lucifer makes me very, very . . . nervous.
Kali with flaming arms is kind of cool, though.
Gabe steps up to the plate! \o/ (After telling Dean to guard a "Casa Erotica" DVD with his life. Um . . . ha?)
"Luci, I'm home." Because you know someone had to make that joke eventually, right? Also? I kind of love that line, because it says that Gabe has come home, he's done hiding, and he's come to settle things.
I also kinda love Gabe calling Lucifer out on all of it.
Boys escape with Kali. She might make an interesting (though untrustworthy) ally, yeah? Ot1h, I'd kind of like to see that happen. Otoh, not so much, as I think it would make my brain hurt.
Gabe has chosen a side. The side of humanity. Which, given that this whole thing started because God told the angels to love humanity, puts Gabe on God's side, right? "Dad was right," right?
Team Free Will has a new member! \o/
*gasp* Lucifer KILLED Gabe! *slaps hands over mouth* NOOOOOO!!!!! With toasted wings and everything! *sob*
Red screen, cheesy music, disclaimer. Wha???? We get to watch part of Dean's porn DVD?
Gabe is in the movie? Okay, something's up.
Secret message! "If you're watching this, I'm dead." *sob*
Gabe gives them the information they need! Lucifer's cage is still down there! They can trap him! The rings are the keys! Collect all four!
And I kinda love their expressions when Gabe goes back to making the movie. Particularly the way Sam closes the laptop quickly and definitively. Ha!
They have a plan!
Okay, Matt Frewer as Pestilence? Pretty freakin' awesome. However, that entire scene was thoroughly disgusting and gag-inducing. I can't even re-watch it right now. I just . . . *gag*
So in conclusion, there was indeed much to love about this episode. Some stuff that I had misgivings and reservations about, but nothing that couldn't be handwaved.
I LOVE having Dean back, in the game, can-do-go-down-fighting-saving-people attitude, S1 Dean only all grown up. Welcome back, Dean. Now you're gonna have your hands full keepin' an eye on Sam next week, it would seem.
Also, the guys looked good.
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Date: 2010-04-25 03:08 pm (UTC)I like the ep as well. It wasn't super, but it was fun and gave us a valuable clue!
Thanks for your review.
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Date: 2010-04-25 09:38 pm (UTC)Thanks for reading. :-)
And I'm sure the effects people have a blast coming up with some of this stuff. Blood, guts, severed limbs, squibs and goo and snot . . . what's not to love?
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Date: 2010-04-25 09:09 pm (UTC)New Baby, New Son - and 2000 years isn't all that long in the lives of angels, is it? Hmmm, says I.
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Date: 2010-04-25 09:31 pm (UTC)I did have some thinky thoughts along the lines of humanity having the opportunity for forgiveness, and as far as we know, angels don't have that option. But the thoughts are still too thinky to put into words.